New Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide Art and Details Revealed

The marketing cycle for the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide is underway. Wizards of the Coast has released the first video and accompanying article previewing the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. Wizards has already told fans what's actually in the new 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide, so there's not much in terms of actual new details. The video/article revealed that the Bastion system got another look from designers after its initial Unearthed Arcana playtest, that there will be a DM's Toolkit for everything from "alignment to traps," now arranged in alphabetical order, and that there will be 400 "new and improved" magic items.

The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide will also be the home of rules for crafting magic items and a new Greyhawk campaign setting guide, with a focus on showcasing how Greyhawk can be customized or be used as a model for homemade campaign settings. Finally, the Dungeon Master's Guide will contain a lore glossary and a full chapter about D&D cosmology, the latter of which helps to drive home the idea of the D&D multiverse.


While much of this information was already known, the video and article did show off a LOT of new art, some of which can be found below:

 

[The Soloist]

The City and Castle illustration looks like it was painted on canvas using classic brush strokes and painting techniques. I love it.

I guess some people are too young to recognize that and think it's AI.

 

[ezo]

The City and Castle illustration looks like it was painted on canvas using classic brush strokes and painting techniques. I love it.

That is actually one of the couple that don't look like AI to me.

Regardless, I am not a fan of the style, but that is true of that style of painting in general, regardless of theme.

I guess some people are too young to recognize that and think it's AI.

To be clear, I don't any of these are AI, just the lack of fine detail reminds me of a lot of AI art.

 

[Remathilis]

Sigh... Every discussion about art forever is going to be a "is it/isn't it AI" debate...

I hate this timeline...

 

[DarkCrisis]

Another piece of art

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I hate this timeline...

The good news is that the simulation seems to be crashing. Fingers crossed it gets rebooted.

 

[Malmuria]

The piece with the dragon looks like it was paint by numbers. This is going to be one ugly book

 

[ezo]

The piece with the dragon looks like it was paint by numbers. This is going to be one ugly book

Is THAT what that was supposed to be...???

Another piece of art

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While I appreciate this is "quality art", the style is just something I cannot get behind. The lack of find detail, etc. is just not something I like.

 

[Distracted DM]

Sigh... Every discussion about art forever is going to be a "is it/isn't it AI" debate...

I hate this timeline...

The fact that there's a part of my brain that's analyzing whether every piece of (primarily ttrpg+gaming) art that I see is a product of AI or not is the everyday reason (as opposed to ethical reason) that I hate it- that and how much of my image results are cluttered with obviously bad AI art.

I can see why people say that nighttime city piece looks AI-ish... But legit artists getting accused of AI art because "that look" has now been claimed by AI art is just friggin terrible all around.

Crappy part of the timeline, I agree.

 

[Lidgar]

Not a fan of this artwork. The artwork in the PHB, while quality-wise fine, just conveys this "happy-go luck, everyone is having fun" vibe. Too many goofy scenes of smiling/laughing PCs, like adventuring is just a big party.

Art-wise, my preference is for black and white ink (like Sutherland's classic), not this. Hey, get off my lawn!

 

[The Soloist]

None of these are supposed to be AI because of WoTC's policy.

These days, the majority of art is created using computers, a graphic tablet and an electronic pen. It's all artificial but human-made. AHM Art.